The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-15
JAY GOULD'S SISTER.

She Teaches School and His Old Sweet
heart Keeps Boarding House.
Philadelphia Correspondence Chicago Tribune.
The mild-looking, rather petite, but dig
nified woman just passing must have been
quite pretty in her youth, though she never
probably could have been called handsome
There is certain something, however, about
her-a sweetness in her looks and manner
that is more charming in a woman of her
years than any remains of physical beauty
would be. She is very simply attired in
black, and a black bonnet modestly covers
her silvery-gray hair.
Who is shes
She is Jay Gould's sister. She has come
over from her home in Camden-a quiet
little town across the river-to do some
shopping probably One often meets her in
the busy streets, but as her identity is known
to few, she escapes the ogling and comment
that she would otherwise be subjected to-
She is not rich, by any means. Indeed,
aside from moderate allowance that the
specializing CrCnsus makes her, she de-
rlves her living from a school for girls
that her daughters conduct. The school,
it is said, is an excellent one, and Gould-like,
it gets the cream of the business in South
jersey.
no SCuOOl-uOuSb was cItCUtu dD gay
Gould's expense. Jay knew that his sister
had not married we'll from q financial point
of view, and that her daughters were strug-
CLING for living, but he was too busy pill
ing up his millions to give the matter much
personal attention. But his wife had her
eye on the girls, and she was so pleased with
their earnestneSs that she brought the mat
ter to the attention of her husband and in
sisted on his building the girls a school.
Gould did not object, and, now that his at
tention was directed to the matter, he gave
orders that no expense should be spared in
making the building modei one in every
respect. He himself takes so much pride in
it and in the success of the nieces as any
one whenever he permits himself the luxury
of five minutes thought on subject so far
removed from stocks and bonds. His sister
and the girls were spending part of the sum-
mer up at PlattSburg, N. Y, with Jay
Goulds first love, who keeps a boarding
house up there. She is elderly and gray
haired now, and is not strikingly hand
some but i'll her day she was blithesome and
pretty. She was the daughter of a country
store-keeper. Jay Gould, after leaving his
fathers farm, went to work in the store,
and promptly fell in love with the rosy
checked maiden. But the old man had much
higher views of mis- daughters future than
a marriage with a young man in his own
shop would realize. he not only gave young
Gould to understand that a marriage was
out of the question, but dispensed with his
service as well. Jay took his rejection
philosophically enough and gave himself up
to the work of making fortune. While
he was growing richer and richer and plling
million on million his old love was vainly
trying to battle with misfortune. Her
father, who had plumed himself so proudly
on the ownership of his general store, "
failed; the husband whom she took after
Jay Gould had gone away brought little to
her; and at the end she endeavors to exc out
an income by opening her house to summer
boarders. She has a wondrous amount of
philosophy in her make up and very little
envy She is bright, good-natured and con-
tented with what fortune has brought-or
ought one to say left-her Some of Jay
Goulds relatives spend few weeks at her
farmhouse every year, but Jay himself
never goes there.